Even classical latin authors made note of different spoken registers at the time, referring to e.g. sermo vulgaris, sermo familiaris, or sermo urbanus, and would shake their heads as the "improper" latin of the lower classes and the youth, exactly as the same sort of people do today, with no more relevance than their self-important sense of ...

Ecclesiastical Latin is still spoken, but only by the clergy of the Catholic Church and in certain situations (usually in the context of liturgy). But also, as the Roman Empire expanded, the Latin language spread out and came into contact with other languages, resulting in the Romance languages of today: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and ...

Jan 4, 2024 · The vast majority of the populace lacked proper education but was still exposed to a lot of Latin throughout their daily lives, which gave birth to a multitude of local dialects, all of them a mix of simplified Latin and the local native language (in Italy, those were mostly Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan or Venetic).

Sep 29, 2021 · the fall of the roman empire and people moving away from Catholicism. the modern romance languages are a result of the vulgar "commonly spoken" versions of Latin with their localized dialects. without the presences of the roman empire to maintain the standardization of the language the locally spoken dialects were further embraced by the ...

Aug 5, 2022 · Back when Latin was actually spoken by native speakers, it had dialects just like English has dialects. And just as Latin evolved into different languages after a millennium or so, we can reasonably suppose that British English and American English will have become two different languages in a thousand years.

Jan 28, 2013 · French, for example, is a descendant of the vulgar Latin spoken in Gaul, among other languages. Italian is, for what should be fairly clear reasons, arguably the closest descendent. Latin still exists as a separate entity from Italian because it was kept around for a very long time due to the church.

The common English spoken 50, 100, or 500 years ago is not exactly the same as the common English spoken today. Different areas of Italy also spoke different dialects of Latin, just like there are different dialects of English spoken throughout the United States and England. The more time passed, the more the language changed from its original ...

Jul 19, 2019 · Sure, Latin's still being used by the Catholic Church in a vaguely classical form (there are a few syntactic differences, but I don't think they're relevant). But in a way, it's also still being spoken in Spain and France and Portugal and Mexico and Brazil...

Latin today is very much alive and is becoming more popular and used more in a communicative way. There are some who say Latin is dead because there are no native speakers. I’m a linguist, and for me that is a out-of-date definition that is no longer helpful and …

Vulgar Latin was still spoken, with regional Latin variations just over a lot of time giving birth to different Romance languages. There was absolutely no doubt in people's minds that they were speaking the Latin language, or at least, as some would call it too, the Roman language.